05.27.2009 11:53 am

Journalism critic finds N.Y. Times’ public editor a bit too defensive

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt weighed in this past weekend on recent “transgressions” by three Times journalists — Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Edmund Andrews. Hoyt describes the first two as “star columnists” and Andrews as an economics writer.

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05.18.2009 3:47 pm

Maureen Dowd’s admission of plagiarism stirs much buzz

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd — whose column appears Thursdays in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Other Views page — has admitted using material from a Talking Points Memo post in her Sunday column.

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Journalism critic finds N.Y. Times’ public editor a bit too defensive

Maureen Dowd’s admission of plagiarism stirs much buzz

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